MomS Dumplings For Chicken And Dumplings

Ingredients

• 12 heaping spoons flour the big spoons you serve vegetables with
• 1 12 tsp salt
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 heaping spoon Crisco shortening use same spoon used for flour

Directions

1. Sift together flour salt and baking powder
2. Cut in Crisco shortening
3. Stir in just enough milk to make a real thick sticky dough
4. Roll out pretty thin on a floured surface
5. Cut into squares
6. Drop into boiling broth
7. Scatter your droppings so they dont all goo up
8. You can judge this by dropping according to where the boiling bubbles are
9. Cook about 20 minutes
10. DO NOT STIR TOO MUCH just enough to keep the dumplings from sticking to the bottom otherwise you will break up the dumplings
11. Thicken broth with a mixture of flour and milk to desired consistency